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by Kai Stromler » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:34 am
hey,
Very good for a first video, but there are still a couple points for improvement. Up until the second grayscale break it seemed like there was way too little in-frame motion and the guitar line was being essentially ignored. When the music is moving and the video is basically sitting on a single static frame, it's not cool. However, this did pick up in the second half of the video, so it probably won't be an issue in the future.
Subtitles = big thumbs-down. Insomnium is eminently intelligible (unlike, say, Shadow, they actually enunciate), and to watch this video without annoyance I had to put my hands over part of my screen. In the future, include lyrics in the video description entry, release in a container that allows soft-subs, or just let the audience figure it out for themselves.
This was not a great video, but I enjoyed it despite now having fingerprints on my LCD, and look forward to your future works. It's always good to see other people picking up the banner of extreme music, not least because I feel less guilty when I go several projects without releasing a metal video.
--K